Those were the salient questions after UCLA's 81-80 victory over Cal on Saturday. The winning points came on a shot from behind the backboard by Josh Shipp with one second remaining. Before that, Cal turned over the ball on a "no-call" by Pac-10 officials, who had a rough couple of days at Pauley Pavilion.

Rule 7, section 1, article 3 of the NCAA rulebook states: "The ball shall be out of bounds when it passes over the backboard from any direction."

Bill McCabe, the Pac-10 supervisor of officials, concurred. ''If you shoot the ball over the backboard," he said, "it's out of bounds."

McCabe, who was questioned about a foul call late in the Bruins' victory over Stanford on Thursday that allowed UCLA to send the game into overtime, asked the officials (Dave Libbey, Don McAlister and Tom Wood) after Saturday's game what they saw on the play.

"It comes right over the corner," McCabe said. "After the game the official said it was too close to call."

But to the Bruins, there was no question whether the shot went over the top of the backboard and not behind it.

"I was trying to get on the other (front) side of the backboard but was cut off," Shipp said. "I was forced to shoot it from the other side. It was one of those H-O-R-S-E shots. I'm lucky I play H-O-R-S-E. I was fortunate enough to have it go down for me. â¦

But was it within the rules? "They counted it," Shipp replied.

"I didn't think it was going to come down to throwing it over the backboard to get it in, but, hey, we'll take it," said Kevin Love, who led the Bruins with 22 points.

The Golden Bears were less concerned with the shot by Shipp because of the disputed turnover that preceded it with 15.7 seconds remaining. Ryan Anderson appeared to be fouled by Shipp and Russell Westbrook when trying to field an inbound pass. Cal was up, 80-79. A foul call equals free throws, and Anderson is 88.3 percent from the line.

"Anderson was fouled, but they didn't call it," Cal coach Ben Braun said. "No way that should have happened. I wasn't concerned about the shot (by Shipp); I was more concerned with the foul not being called.

"I'm disappointed that call was not made. You could have shot that shot 100 times and make one, but that's not the issue. The call should have been made."

As with the Bruins and the shot by Shipp, there was no question for the Golden Bears, either.

"I watched the replay and both hands were around (Anderson) and the ball was off Shipp," Braun said. ''Ryan deserved to be at the free throw line."

But no foul call was made, the ball was ruled out of bounds off Anderson and UCLA took possession.

A first run at the basket went awry when Darren Collison drove to the basket and had his shot deflected by Cal's Jamal Boykin, the ball going out of bounds off Cal with six seconds to go.

The Bruins' inbound pass went to Shipp, who has been struggling mightily from 20 feet and out. But he saved the Bruins after they had almost lost to the ninth-place team in the conference.

"That was a great shot," Coach Ben Howland said. "It was like a H-O-R-S-E shot ... Incredible. He screws around with different types of stuff, but that's probably (brothers) Joe and Jerren in the backyard over there at mom and dad's house, playing around."

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